Rebel fighters of the National
Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a separatist movement of ethnic
Tuaregs in northern Mali, stormed the offices of private Radio Adar Khoïma in
the northeastern town of Gao on April 3, 2012, according to local journalists and
news reports. The rebels kidnapped a journalist and assaulted him, and forced
the station off the air for 72 hours, the sources said.

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Lagos, Nigeria, August 7, 2012--Members of
an Islamist militant group attacked a radio journalist in Mali on Sunday and
ordered his station off the air, according to local journalists and news
reports. The attack was in retaliation for the station's coverage of local
protests, according to local journalists and a leader of the Islamist group.